skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the offense you've taken results from the way two almost unrelated issues are completely merged in the debates around specialized visas for STEM workers. An extremely simplified version of the discussion goes like this:

A: "There is a shortage of stem workers, therefore, we should facilitate immigration for stem workers"

B: "No, there is no evidence of a shortage of stem workers, therefore, we should not facilitate immigration specifically for stem workers"

A: "I'm amazed that you wouldn't support legislation that would make it easier for highly skilled and productive people to stay in the US."

The problem for me in this debate (which I'm still hoping can be a discussion) is that I think that the "shortage" of STEM workers is generally a rational response to market conditions when you consider the other opportunities available to highly educated workers. I also think that targeting specific professions through immigration programs (while restricting mobility in others) can end up distorting the market badly and deterring US Citizens from entering these fields, something that could badly harm the US economy in the long term.

To me, this is almost completely unrelated to the question of whether we should make it easier for high skilled immigrants to come to the US in a more generalized way (like Canada or Australia's points system). To that question, I'd answer "yes".

In general, I think this is an honest misunderstanding, but I do think that some of the PR machinery behind the lobbying for specialized visas does take deliberate advantage of the ambiguity.
The action on the Natural 4000 is so stiff that I know several people who experienced severe bouts of RSI within hours to days of getting one.

Check out Kinesis: great layout, and great switches. One or the other just isn't enough for many.
On the other hand, the loss of a rover to one of these plumes could itself provide interesting information: It would conclusively prove that they occur explosively, and if we can photograph the rover afterwards then the displacement of an object with known mass would let us gauge the amount of force these things exert.
In Chrome/Chromium, $$() is a shortcut for document.querySelectorAll().
Well I know about that.You can open a company but can not work for it.What is the use?
I will go with Elon Musk for having impact on multiple fronts.
From my perspective that amounts to an enormous cut. I understand that you guys are attempting to mitigate the not-getting-paid risk, but I've been able to do that on my own by choosing good clients. My feedback would be:

1) find a way to disclose the details of how this works for developers on the landing page or on a linked FAQ. I'm simply not going to "Get Started" if I think crucial details are being withheld from me. The pitch put me on the defensive from step 1 which is not a good place to start.

2) Think about adding tiering to your pricing. 10% could make sense for freelances who are just getting started and need to establish themselves with some initial portfolio work but I don't think it makes sense for higher paid freelancers who would otherwise still consider using your platform to find new and interesting projects.

On a positive: the layout and design of this landing page are very well done. The page is very easy to scan and the draw to the call to action button is palpable without feeling salesy or un-balanced.
Ask HN: Which startup or product ideas would you like to see built?
It seems every entrepreneur and developer I meet and speak to has at least one or two product ideas in their mind that they always think about but never get around to building.

So, what are yours?

If we share them there would be a chance of somebody else reading building it.
What do Postgres and Frankenstein have in common?
To be honest, I don't care that there's an update available. I'm not interested in getting spam from authors of the books I buy. I buy a lot of books for Kindle, but the day Amazon lets authors spam me is the day I stop buying at Amazon.

I understand that an author's book is important to them, but most of their readers just aren't that interested. If I was really interested in new editions of the Vim tips book, I'd already be following the author online.
You can visit nreduce.com/d to meet all the teams. Here is the intro to all the teams : https://vimeo.com/50698479
That is a great question. We spent a lot of time designing our signup flow and are currently on the third major iteration. The one thing that we find works consistently well is to give the user something to do as soon as they sign up. For Sidelines, that something is selecting your teams. The drop rate on that screen is extremely low and we speculate it will approach zero as soon as we add more sports. We are also working on implementing a "tour" of the site as part of onboarding, showcasing the various features because we did get the feedback that things can be confusing initially.
For one, the younger employees of such megacorps are no longer guaranteed to receive the kind of promotions, raises, benefits, and retirement packages of their predecessors. The more attuned you are to the global tech development at large and the macroeconomic environment, the more you realize that these "stable" companies aren't what they used to be 30 years ago. These companies aren't supposed to have layoffs, yet you see companies from NEC to Sharp cutting workers in the thousands now. The lifetime earnings of a bigcorp guy was said to be $3MM before; now, it's estimated as $2MM for the younger guys.

Second, I think that "high tech startups" have gained significant popular acceptance in Japanese society, which has allowed them to exit bigcorps without being socially stigmatized. (Before, I think it would have hard to even find someone to marry as a startup dude. My friend makes as much money from his website via affiliate ads as he does from his bigcorp job, yet he can't leave the bigcorp since he needs it as a shield against society judging him negatively).

That being said, leaving a big corp is still an outlier. Since a startup exit is so difficult in Japan right now, the "wise" move still may be to stick with the bigcorp job, especially if you're at one of the globally competitive places like the big auto companies or materials suppliers like Shinetsu[1]. It's just that the factors against leaving a bigcorp have become slightly attenuated.

[1] Shinetsu chemical has huge market share for Silicon wafers globally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-Etsu_Chemical
I don't know of many latexes that are springy at -100 C.
It's also interesting to see here in the West how people that act like it would be a huge ethics violation to hire a relative have no problem hiring a friend. Drama and favoritism problems, though, are similiar, whether your'e working with friends or family.
I don't think of lack of strong typing or OO features as a bug either. I think Typescript's approach of optional features added to javascript provides even more flexibility. You can choose specifically if you want strong typing or not, or you can choose to use classes if you think it's the best approach for the current project. I don't think typescript is trying to remove the options that javascript already has, otherwise they would have gone the way of coffeescript or dart. Typescript, to use the common metaphor, simply extends your toolbelt to let you pick what you want for what you need.
Mark Zuckerberg's IPO Letter on Rap Genius
A good image of the formations is on Wikipedia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/PIA11858_...
No, it's like saying that John Deere won't be successful because a competitor is giving out Nascar tractors for free.
Michael Geismar’s $710,000 blackjack breakfast
Tahts teh wya we raed we tedn to recnognze wrod shpaes instaed of the wrods thmeslevse
_is_ there anything of importance happening "outside of the web" nowadays?

Seriously???
You can't swing a cat without hitting someone singing the praises of "Big Data". We're at a point where machine learning is moving from academia out into "real world" in a major way. Statistics, data analysis and simulation is playing a more and more significant role in more and more fields every day. Both GIS and BIM, while still pretty niche, are growing rapidly in importance in their respective fields. I could go on all day. I'd almost (but not quite) say web frameworks is least important or interesting thing happening these days.
You can change your privacy settings with the photos you own (ie you uploaded them), but not for the pictures you are tagged in.

Last time I checked the download history feature of FB didn't included photos you were tagged in either.

I want a beautiful place were my memories live. Using a file system like drop box to store them I think it will be pretty sad for such a valuable assent.

Check out the story section to know what I mean.
Also worth mentioning that there should be another $40 worth of data fees from amazon.

375000000.0 / 1024. / 1024. * $0.12 = $42.91
Geez, a lot of jerks on HN today. jv22222, thanks for making this. You're obviously putting a lot of work into it. I can't say that it particularly interests me at this point, but I'm glad that you and people like you work hard on things and open-source them.
I would constantly add "darklyrics" to my google searches simply because the site has little to no adds, anecdotal I know, but go figure.
True, but if you're a business that needs this kind of data for your product, it's almost certainly cheaper to pay Google than to either develop it in-house or make contributing to OpenStreetMap part of your business. Personally, I'd rather build things than pay someone else for what they built, especially if the thing is interesting or "fun"; but reality confronts most of us. Smarter to pay for the wheel than reinvent your own (or waiting for someone else to do it, for free) ... at least, that's the assumption I'm operating on.
I've been impressed by Andreedsen Horowitz's approach of recognizing winners in large markets and putting large amounts of money to work. It's gutsy and smart.

However, I'm concerned about putting large amounts of money into startups that have yet to become businesses. An over-abundance of resources is often detrimental to realizing a vision and finding a market.

Anyway, I remain a fan of A16Z and suspect they've seen something compelling not yet visibile to the outside observer.
News form the CC and OfT on the insurance industry problem
And if you are building a startup that wants to compete in these markets ?

The definition of enterprise is pretty arbitrary these days.
Mark Zuckerberg's Favorite Rap Lyric on Rap Genius
Why Do You Create?
"The clients for my current occupation, teaching mathematics lessons through a local nonprofit organization, included first-generation immigrants from China, India, Russia, Romania, the Philippines, Korea, Ghana, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, and other countries I may be forgetting at the moment"

Just to be clear I'm understanding correctly: first-generation immigrant means born outside the USA and now living in the USA, right?

So you teach math to first-gen immigrants from Russia? Are these adults or children? If children, I guess there must be a couple of kids who went thru the Russian education system that are bad at math. :)
When we talked to freelance developers, the two biggest complaints we heard were filtering clients and not getting paid on time. These are the two problems we want to solve with matchist: better matches and guaranteed payment.

We do take a percentage cut, and we are super transparent about it. If you sign up, you'll have a call with myself or my co-founder and I tell you everything you want to know in addition to getting to know who you are and what projects you like to work on. We're definitely a service and very hands on to ensure a great experience.
The ban just went into effect -- and after a legal challenge even. It will take some time for everyone to switch over and enforcement to begin.
Ask HN: Fat founder, does it hurt getting funding?
Do venture capitalists or angels fund fat people? When I look about I see most founders are a bit fitter and thinner than the average population. Perhaps there is some bias in terms of who goes to conferences or gets into magazines.
HN, Is being Fat a problem in terms of getting investors?
I'm not a xenobiologist so I couldn't quantify the relative chance of them being 'plants'. But this is the kind of stuff we can speculate on.

First, we'll need to be a bit loose with our definitions since 'plant' means a very specific kind of thing.

So if we define a 'plant' as a chemical process which creates structure in the presence of certain chemicals such that a transformative chemical reaction is enabled whereby energy in the form of sunlight or heat is used to build additional structure. Then we can see if there is a chemical mix that would have this characteristic output.

It is critical to note though that this would also classify a stalactite as a 'plant' which converts calcium carbonate into 'structure' (in this case rock) by exploiting a transfer agent (water).

Interesting questions would be "Why vanish in the winter?" what ever hypothesis we come up with has to include the observed effect and behaviors. This is my biggest issue with my 'frozen geyser' hypothesis, it seems like they would continue to exist during winter.

Finding better imagery from HiRise would be good too, in particular it would be useful to know if these were vertical structures or not. that would show up as shadows.

Lots of fun to think about.
> This means that an iOS app will never be improved by other apps installed on the system

I've got apps launching links in iCab, other apps using files from the Dropbox app, etc., so that seems a bit inflexible.

I get that Android's app-to-app crosstalk is considerably deeper, it's just the characterization of iOS that doesn't seem totally right to me.
Cloudfront in front of ec2 would be cheaper (you'd potentially pay a lot to have it in front of s3). Also, we discovered the hard way that cloudfront is nowhere near as resilient as s3 under load (and if you need to do a cache invalidation you are pretty much screwed).
"Field declarations for a single content type strewn across multiple features? Why?"

Sorry for the confusion; I meant lower-case "features," as in, new pieces of functionality that both affect the same kind of data, not "Features" in Drupal terms. I don't think it would be especially unusual for multiple feature branches to affect the same content type in different ways.

"Who claimed Drupal was object oriented? Seriously, I'd like to know so I can spill my drink on them if I ever run into them at a DrupalCon afterparty."

Admittedly I've been away from the Drupal community for awhile, but I attended a DrupalCon several years ago in which the argument was made in multiple talks that Drupal's design followed the object-oriented philosophy despite not taking advantage of PHP-native object-oriented mechanisms. This (old) article seems to espouse these sentiments roughly as I remember them: http://drupal.org/node/547518 and I remember finding them to be pretty ridiculous at the time. Perhaps community sentiments have changed since then.
Facebook: Pay to promote your posts for garage sales, parties
Mars rover checks in to 4square
People will be replacing FPGAs with much faster ASICs around the same time that GPUs drop out due to the reward halving. Many people are predicting that difficulty will increase 10x, not decrease.
All other things aside, I'm amazed this will NOT be in the valley...
Yes, and everyone should be doing so. For EC2 Amazon provides sample CloudWatch scripts[1] that will report additional metrics, including storage space. All server monitoring tools and services can (and should) watch your disk space.

If you're not monitoring basic problems like disk utilization and RAM you're just asking for unnecessary downtime.

[1]: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/De...
64-bit ARM support merged into Linux kernel
A PhD makes it more difficult to find a job because bigcorps (1) want to indoctrinate and mold you based on company doctrine and culture, and (2) pay based on age.

(1) Japanese bigcorps have extensive on the job training programs which bring relatively specialized new grads up to speed. In fact I think it does a great job at getting nearly all new hires up to median performance within the company. Think of it as relying on mass producing "good employees", rather than focusing on finding "great employees".

(2) Japanese bigcorps are organized such that promotions and pay increases happen based on seniority. This is especially the case at the lower ranks, where everything is very methodical and planned out. Promotion cycles tend to happen every 3 years, with boolean results. Raises happen methodically every year according to HR's tables (though these get phased out when you get more senior -- part of the cost cutting efforts in the last 20 years).

Combine these two factors and companies want young, cheap "good enough" talent to join their company, after which they will train them according to their corporate flavor. Hiring a PhD means that you have to pay them higher than the undergrad, even though you're going to put them both through the same training cycles. Unless there's a really good fit between the doctorate candidate's research and what a team wants (or lab-corporate connections), companies will shy away from hiring PhDs.
I understand your feelings on this, but I suspect that depends upon the degree to which someone is able to compartmentalize and multi-task. Having a work life and a personal life doesn't have to be an either/or proposition, even if you work for people you know. I freely acknowledge that it's not for everyone, however if you have the ability to structure your life properly, it can work wonderfully for both parties.

One of the biggest pluses would be the personality aspect. You can interview and hire someone with a stellar resume and great interview skills, however you cannot truly know their personality until you work with them, and personality is one of the things that can make or break a working relationship. As the article touched upon, you often better know the strengths and weaknesses of those closest to you. This allows you to find the best fit for someone's personality and skills, which benefits everyone. Additionally, your friends and family are likely to give their absolute best effort because they're not just a part of your business, they're a part of your life. That's not always the case I know, as I'm sure we've all heard horror stories of friends and family who have taken advantage of such opportunities. But implementing the steps outlined would aid in preventing such situations, or in remedying them quickly should they arise.
You can use Flippa.com for this sort of a sale.
> When I was at MSR I heard the rumor that they wanted to sell Z3, not open-source it!

It has already been pointed out that they didn't open-source Z3, they just made the source code available under the same license the binary already was. I would add that they have been selling Z3 for a long time:

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/en_US/pd/product...

It has been there since 2011 according to my “archives”:

http://blog.frama-c.com/index.php?post/2011/12/23/Z3-in-Micr...
Are you speaking in absolute terms or per capita?
To be fair I've only used it for about a week-and-a-half now. If you give it a specific address it works pretty well for the most part. One thing I love compared to my Galaxy Nexus is that under the lock screen the next direction will turn the screen on.

Another thing that works better is integration with Siri. I felt that on Android there were a few more hoops to go through to do things like "drive to home" or "drive to Bob's Chicken Shack".

The things I don't like are the lack of detail on the maps currently. I don't use the satellite layer so it looks really sparse and I feel like I'm driving to big abstract blobs.

To be honest this is pretty good for a first try. Getting native turn-by-turn that works 95% of the time is pretty impressive.
Yup, the "Find out more" link is a great idea and something we're in the process of trying. We're doing an experiment with creating a 30 second video about the benefits of the site. We're planning to have a link on the landing page which says something like "Watch a quick video to find out more" which opens up the video for those users who are curious but not curious enough to sign up right away.
> They aren't happy. They are drugged.

I don't see why the two are mutually exclusive.

> It cannot grow or adapt in the face of new opportunities or needs (eg climate shift, resource depletion).

It looks like they solved all their problems through technology, so they don't need to adapt to anything. Just full-time happiness!
nice, I like the hipster comment.. although I am not an hipster designer.

I would encourage you to read the story section on the website.

To sum it up. There are personal and intimate memories on Facebook (such as past relationships and in general phases in your life that are meaningful but over) which you might not be comfortable to share anymore after years they happened... and yet they are very important to you.

I want a better space for those memories which is more intimate and for my eyes only
Yeah, you absolutely need an FAQ - there's hardly any copy on the site.

I think something like a 5% cut would be reasonable if the entire process was pain free. Maybe 10% for a one-off project, or 5% if you maintain a $49/mo subscription.

You could also partner with other companies to add value to the $49 - like a curated "special offers" page for services that a freelancer could use or resell to their clients.
Email sent. I'm interested in hearing more.
Is Offshore Wind Power Worth the Cost?
Twitter is free. App.net is not.
Why not literally a plant? Like leafy, relies on water, comes from a small seed, reproduces via pollen/wind, based on a cell structure.

We have plants in the desert here on Earth that blossom once every X years or decades. Is there a reason such a "plant" could not have survived the harsh later years of mars post surface water?

Bonus idea: if these are plants relying on ground water, their location would give away the position of said ground water. They could be mapped and their spacial density used to find source pools for humans to tap.
Digital/marketing agencies absolutely eat this shit up. I'm not sure what you consider to be a high budget, but it usually seems to be in the $80-$200k sweet spot where the agency wants to use Drupal so they can cut down on hours and still retain a lot of features.

Of course, they also want superb design and UX so things usually end up going over budget as we have to hack the hell out of Drupal to match the level of UX desired. Every single Drupal project I've worked on I've wished I could be using a real framework and code from scratch instead.

Unfortunately I don't see the perception of digital agency project managers changing much. They still think they can get the best of both worlds.
Slashdot will always be near and dear to my heart. Slashdot was a big catalyst in my early tech education, even if I had to wait for long threads to load over my Courier Robotics modem. I can't remember if my user number was 8811 or 8872 but I do remember how cool it was to meet cmdrtaco at an early Linuxworld in nyc.

Thanks for everything /.
Seems like quite a short-sighted perspective. In the long-run, it will be a great benefit to users to have two companies with billions of dollars to spare competing head-on to build big-data services driven by machine-learning and crowd sourcing, plus AI services, search engines, knowledge bases...
How is payment to developers done? Do they need a PayPal account? or other way? Is there more than one way to get paid?
Bill of Rights on Rap Genius
HotelTonight acquires PrimaTable
The next Steve Jobs is likely someone nobody has heard of yet.
I would be very interested in the source for this info